Annie Barrows

Reading good books spoils you for enjoying bad books.

You know how I love talking about books, and you know how I adore receiving compliments.

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you onto another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive—all with no end in sight, and for no other reason than sheer enjoyment.

I am a grown woman-- mostly-- and I can guzzle champagne with whomever I choose.

We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.

Then he felt remorseful, which was so unlike him and endearing that I almost changed my mind and said yes. But then I imagined a lifetime of having to cry to get him to be kind, and I went back to no again.